The Belgian prince is looking for retirement advantages

To attend the balsams, cut the tapes and meet the diplomats, the Belgian prince takes a royal instead of 100,000 euros, approximately $ 110,000 a year. But what will happen when he stops working? Therefore, Prince Laurent from Belgium is looking for government benefits.

This week’s court approved in part, recommending that the lawmakers be considered in the position of regulations on a federal pension for the prince, even when his argument refused that his royal duties were essentially a job and that his expenditures were similar to reaching himself.

His lawyer, Olivier Regekart, said in an interview on Tuesday that the court actually put the prince in a special category, similar to a “super government employee”. His lawyer said: Another person is in this category: the sister of the elder Prince, Princess Astrid.

His lawyer said that the 61 -year -old prince will now decide whether he would wait for the law to be approved or the court ruling is challenged, in the hope of speeding up the operation.

Prince Laurent, the younger brother of King Philip, brought the case in 2023 to prosecute the National Institute of Belgium for Social Security for workers for their own account. He argued in the court that without a pension, his wife, Princess Claire, and their three adult children will leave two financial exhibitions upon his death or if he stopped his duties, according to court documents.

The prince receives a salary of 400,000 euros annually, and uses three quarters to cover the salaries of his employees in addition to various trips and entertainment expenses, according to his lawyer. Mr. Regekart said that Prince Laurent is required to provide support documents for all of these expenses.

The lawyer said this leaves the prince up to a salary of 100,000 euros, as he decreased to nearly 60,000 euros per year – about 65,000 dollars – after the tax. (In Belgium, the average family available for the family is 34,884 dollars annually, According to the data From the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.)

Case Discussion In some Belgium angles on whether the royal duties are the work, the argument that Mr. Regekart Explained in the opinion article last yearEmphasizing that his client must have the right to obtain social security.

The lawyer wrote: “If you think that cutting the tapes, shaking hands with the hands and listening to the people is lengthy while showing interest (real or dark) in their activities, then give them a few days,” the lawyer wrote.

Mr. Rijckaert has argued that the Prince’s net income corresponds to a large income in Belgium. But “the difference is that the higher executive benefits, in addition to this salary, are from the coverage of full social security.” “Not the prince, nor his family.”

The court’s offer was the latest in a series of glasses that won Prince Laurent the title of “Prince Modette” – “The District Prince”.

In 2011, it is Loss loss His annual salary when he traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and met with President Joseph Kabila at the time without diplomatic supervision. In the same year, it is A meeting outside the books has been organized With Libyan opposition officials while Muammar Gaddafi was in power.

In 2018, the Belgium Parliament voted to reduce the annual endowment by 15 percent The punishment for attending an unauthorized celebration At the Chinese embassy in the full marine uniform.

The Emir also convicted the sponsor of the environmental -focused charitable institutions, speed And leadership A vintage car is not registeredA crime that was fined 200 euros in 2022.